91 Quotes About Monkeys

"The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about."

"Like in the zoo, you will always find lots of monkeys but very few lions."

"I like the bad one better,' I said. 'She had flying monkeys, and the good one was tacky and seemed kind of dumb."

"I mean to say, we all sprang from humble origins. Goodness gracious, who would have thought that a species of monkey would take over the kingdom of the world. … I cannot help but feel that the monkey was not a good choice. Surely one of the cat family would have been much more satisfactory. They have a much less emotional approach to life. ("The Shadmock")"

"Until a team of monkeys have made the round trip to Mars and returned in good health, there is no manned mission to Mars."

"If monkeys were religious before evolution, we would never have coming down from the trees of Africa"

"Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!"

"The monkeys, she explained, were considered reincarnated politicians, which made Rue laugh and the stick entirely understandable."

"Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring trees. As it was in the beginning, so it is every morning of the world."